Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, is speaking at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs on Feb. 23. Du Mez is a historian of religion, gender, and politics and a professor of history at Michigan’s Calvin University. Her book, Jesus and John Wayne, charts the rise and influence of evangelical Christianity and the history of white evangelical masculinity as it is intertwined with militarism.
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Eastman Involved in Setting up Oltmann’s Meetings With Trump Officials, Says Oltmann
Former Trump attorney John Eastman is Colorado’s most prominent election denier, having authored the coup memo while employed by the University of Colorado’s Benson Center for Western Conservative Thought. In a Dec. 12 court deposition, Joe Oltmann, perhaps the state’s second-most infamous conspiracist, says Eastman was involved in setting up his Jan. 6 meetings with Oltmann and various Trump Administration officials, including a senior official in Trump’s State Department.
Colorado Libertarians Learn How To Win Elections
Sixteen Libertarians learned how to run an effective election campaign at the free 2023 Libertarian Party of Colorado Candidate Training. They gathered on Saturday at the libertarian-leaning Independence Institute in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Schools, Medical Debt, Prisons, Black History: CO Springs Legislators Hold Community Discussion
Sen. Tony Exum (D-CO Springs) and Rep. Regina English (D-CO Springs) moderated a panel discussion on the importance of Black history and offered constituents a legislative update during a town hall event at the Chinook Center in Colorado Springs on Saturday.
DougCo Clerk Says It’s Aware of Oltmann’s Potential Voter Fraud And Is Cooperating With Colorado Secretary of State
“Sign in the presence of an election judge,” reads the Douglas County Voter Signature Card, a document that every in-person voter must sign before casting a ballot on Election Day. Like thousands of other voters in the conservative county, election fraud conspiracist Joe Oltmann signed one on Nov. 8 last year. The statement on the card is unequivocal:
Podcast Reveals FBI Informant in 2020 Denver Protests
Journalist Trevor Aaronson’s new podcast, Alphabet Boys, details the role Michael “Mickey” Windecker, an FBI informant, played in Denver’s racial justice protests during the summer of 2020. Following the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in May, 2020, protests erupted across the country, with local communities calling for greater oversight and reform of police departments. In Denver, protesters pointed to the case of Elijah McClain, and in Colorado Springs they pointed to the case of De’Von Bailey.
Republicans Advocate for Fetuses; Hickenlooper Bill Protects Patients’ Access to Medication-Induced Abortion
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), alongside Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), has introduced legislation to safeguard medication abortion in states, like Colorado, where abortion remains legal.
From Pence to Luttig to Ford, How Democracy Nearly Sailed Off a Cliff in Vail
VAIL, Colo. — Impeachment politics and the possibility of presidential prosecution surprisingly keep cropping up here in Vail, where new Jan. 6 revelations are about as unexpected as an affordable place to live, a free parking space, untrammeled powder on a Saturday or a decent burger for under $20.
Will the Steamboat Institute Continue To Offer a Platform to Extremists & Conspiracists?
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – In 2005, when Fox pundit Laura Ingraham attended the Aspen Institute, she was widely quoted as saying she was there as a “token conservative.” That quip caught the attention of a conservative business couple in Steamboat Springs – Jennifer Schubert-Akin and her husband Rick Akin.
Rosemary’s Baby: The Satanic Temple and Abortion
While conservative Christians have been quick to label many things “Satanic” or “demonic” — LGBTQ people, furries, rock and roll music, dungeons and dragons — they have consistently accused abortion advocates of working under the influence of the devil.